Harris CapRock Communications announced that it has signed a two-year contract with Nabors Industries to provide satellite communications to land rigs and an office base in Iraq. With the agreement, Harris CapRock will use its Very Small Aperture Terminal services to enable Nabor’s personnel completing land drilling in remote areas of Iraq to connect with the [...]
Cubic Global Tracking Solutions, a division of Cubic Corp., has won a $3.5 million contract to aid the U.S. Army in the expansion of its next generation wireless communications solutions. The company is delivering its NGWC solution as a subcontractor to ARINC engineering services, according to the company announcement. “The expansion of the Cubic Global Tracking Solutions [...]
KBR has announced today it has been selected by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide life support, vehicle maintenance and healthcare services across Baghdad, Basra and Erbil in Iraq, and Kabul and Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan. The three-year contract requires KBR to provide such services as medical support, fleet management of armoured and [...]
On Sept. 1, President Barack Obama announced the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq and declared it was time for America to “turn the page.” While a 50,000-strong force will remain in theater in an advisory role through the end of next year, training the nascent post-Saddam Iraqi military, the question remains: What will [...]
Just as the Pentagon feared that the money to fund troops was about to run out, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill yesterday that allocated almost $59 billion towards funding for war efforts in Afghanistan and other programs. The House voted 308-114 on the legislation, which dedicates nearly $37 billion to the additional 30,000 [...]
Gen. David Petraeus could be successful in Afghanistan if he followed a strategy similar to the one used in Iraq, according to Center for a New American Security President John A. Nagl. In a recent column in Wall Street Journal, Nagl wrote how “a war not going well is not yet lost,” and Petraeus could [...]
As of December ’09, DoD estimates that over 207,000 contractor personnel are directly supporting operations in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters, and DoD expects to increase the number of contractors in Afghanistan as more troops deploy there. However, a recent GAO report suggests that DoD isn’t doing enough to support and oversee contractor personnel. Here [...]
